You Can’t Get Enough of What You Don’t Need: The Real Secret to Happiness
There’s a saying I came across recently, probably in one of the thousands of YouTube videos that I tend to get lost in: You can never get…
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Why Living in Balance with the World Makes Sense
Thomas Sowell once said there are no solutions, only trade offs. That thought hits hard because it feels both frustrating and freeing at the same time. We…
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Luke Kemp’s “Goliath’s Curse” – Let’s Take a Look
Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse is not the sort of book you can skim on a lazy afternoon and then forget on the coffee table. It’s the kind…
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Eric Hoffer Was Right: Rudeness Is Just Weakness in Disguise
Eric Hoffer said that rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. That little sentence has been pounding in my head like my neighbor, who is the…
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From Movement to Racket: Can Nonprofits Avoid Hoffer’s Trap
Eric Hoffer once wrote that every great cause begins as a movement, turns into a business, and eventually becomes a racket. The line is sharp enough to…
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Contentment vs. Fulfillment: Why Being and Becoming Are Not the Same
Fulfillment, if it is to be understood in any serious way, must be distinguished from the more fleeting states of pleasure or contentment. Pleasure is transient, contentment…
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How Time Co-ops are Similar to SUSU – but different
A time cooperative can be understood in the same spirit as the long tradition of SUSU, though the type of exchange is different. In SUSU, people strengthen…
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Why the Wealthiest People Aren’t the Ones Who Keep the Most
We grow up under the spell of numbers. Numbers in bank accounts, numbers on price tags, numbers that are supposed to tell us whether we are succeeding…
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Our Only Real Job in Life: Help When You Can, Do No Harm When You Can’t
The world is not on fire so much as it is smoldering in quiet places. If you look closely, you can see it. A slow curling of…
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The Art of Not Getting Around to It
They say, “Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?” And by “they,” I assume they mean the same people who alphabetize their sock drawers…